obviously y'all wern't built to be a physical team, our former GM expressed a desire to be complete fricking animals in the playoffs (if we ever made the playoffs) I am confident if the Leafs play anyone they won't be out-hit or out-worked out skilled? yeah that's not gonna be our strong suit

re: MSB Season Long Hockey ThreadPosted by Baloo on 4/26/13 at 8:50 am to LSUCanFAN

Really? The 80s/90s Caps were nothing but grit. They were the scrappiest team on earth, just lacking in what's that word? Oh, right. Talent. OK, they had Bondra, but the Caps are more of a Dale Hunter and Rod Langway team.

re: MSB Season Long Hockey ThreadPosted by LSUCanFAN on 4/26/13 at 9:12 am to Baloo

whoa Baloo...I meant in recent memory...but it's readily apparent that the Caps teams in recent years have been abundantly talented but lacking in toughness...I think you'll agree that playoff hockey is big boy hockey and some people on your recent Caps teams have tended to :coughcough: disappear come playoff time...

Oh and BTW there are people on this board that weren't born when Rod Langway was one of the finest defencemen to play the game...I used to feel sorry for Rod back in those days, the way I felt sorry for Stevie Y, those Caps teams were a fricking horror show...

re: MSB Season Long Hockey ThreadPosted by Baloo on 4/26/13 at 9:55 am to LSUCanFAN

We've had this discussion before and I think every person who has commented on the Caps is wrong. The Caps won by being different and trying to be like everyone else turned them into a mediocre team. And in what series were they "out-toughed"? The Habs just had miracle goaltending. The Lightning won by the trap and having a better top line. The Rangers was a coin flip series that came up tails. I don't think the Caps lost any of those series because they lacked toughness.

The most brutal series the Caps played in their current incarnation, they won. They out-toughed the Bruins.

What the Caps needed was more skill on the second line, and some secondary scoring. There was way too much standing around and waiting for Ovie.

quote:I know we have the tiebreaker on CBJ, but what if there's a three way tie at 54 or 55 points?

2 or more team tie is still ROW wins. Detroit/Minnesota have 21, and CBJ has 18, so CBJ would be out.

To then break the tie between Detroit/Min would come down to head to head points and if two clubs are tied, and have not played an equal number of home games against each other, points earned in the first game played in the city that had the extra game are not included.

Min/Det played 3 times, with Min winning the last 2 games, as the first game is not included as it's in Detroit which had the extra game.